I've just finished reading Space Captain Smith by Toby Frost (aka TobyTwo of the Chrons).
First Paragraph of Chapter One: One dull Tuesday morning, the door opened behind Isambard Smith and Mr Khan entered the room. Smith stopped typing and looked round.
This book could have been a mess: the author is trying to shoehorn one-liners and apparently silly situations into a future space-based setting. (And it's not as if book-length comedy is easy to pull off - I wouldn't even attempt to write it - and when it starts to go wrong, the humour can be sucked right out of it.) Add to that the head-hopping**, and it might have been awful. It isn't.
Space Captain Smith is about as much fun as you can cram into a book its length. Most pages have at least one funny moment and many have far more. I found myself laughing out loud on numerous occasions and smiling an awful lot of the time. The dialogue is fun; there's a real plot, albeit a somewhat silly one; the characters are engaging and the good guys grow on you, particularly Suruk the Slayer. (And in mentioning Suruk, the head-collecting M'lak, I should add that the book does not shrink from a high body-count.)
Highly recommended to anyone who wants to be kept laughing.
(To give you an indication of the pleasure I've derived from this book, I'm already part way through Chapter Two of the first sequel, God Emperor of Didcot.)
** - Although, to be fair, not within paragraphs. While I find it jars a tiny bit (probably the result of trying to discipline my own close-POV writing) I also see that the head-hopping is necessary. There is no way that the author could cram as much fun and humour in if he tried to stick to a close POV. (Note that Carl Hiaasen's black humour, while far less out-and-out funny, also involves head-hopping.) In both Mr Frost's and Mr Hiaasen's work; head-hopping is not really a problem for me as a reader. I was too busy laughing.
honestly - right, nobody will believe it anyway. Typos happen - this one actually makes some sense 
